Amazing shots in this thread! I've been sitting back and enjoying them.
My swallow shots seem to win my fancy more often than not. This year I only shot them one day in May. It was around the same pond I've been shooting them at for the last 8 yrs.
A couple that I've like from this year. This Neve digital console is in the John Ford Dubbing Stage at Fox Studios in L.A. Most recently, films like Lincoln and Life of Pi were mixed at Fox, either in this room or an identical room in the same building. The challenge here was to show both the room, which is the size of a small theater and put emphasis on the board, which is kind of important to Neve, my client.
We're talking ultra wide angle here. Three vertical frames with the 17mm T/S, shifted fully left, right and center, but in reality, shifting the body to the markings on the RRS clamp, to accomplish a rear shift keeping the lens in the same place. That, in effect, gives you a 17mm lens on a 36 mm x 48 mm sensor. Full brackets from 15 sec down to 1/8 were blended manually for each pane and then finally merged into the final pano.
The second image I like to call Gigi-A-Go-Go - a publicity photo for my accordion playing girlfriend and Hohner, the company she endorses.
And finally, a portrait, if you will, of Steve Jordan, fellow FM member and grower of the best artichokes I have ever eaten, in Lompoc, Ca.
Thanks. I just did the same thing at Skywalker Sound, in Marin County. I may post one of those later. I was told that those boards can handle over a thousand separate audio tracks and that Avatar had over nine hundred.
